Martial arts action star, Fabian Carrillo, visits local college

(ORANGE COUNTY, CA) – Fabian Carrillo, martial arts legend and star of the soon-to-be-released movie Double Tap, was a guest speaker at Coastline Community College’s “Self-Defense Arts” class on October 8th. The class, open to the public as part of Coastline’s fall course offerings, is attended mainly by Newport-Mesa Early College High School students in grades 9 through 11.

Prior to his lecture, the class viewed trailers from two of Fabian’s movies, which included edited outtakes showing how his stunts were choreographed in his movies. The topic of his lecture examined how martial arts techniques are used in the movies compared to how they are used in real life situations.

Course instructor, David Dye—who has worked as one of Fabian’s personal stunt choreographers and as a stuntman on two of his movies—had his class take notes during the lecture and demonstrations as part of their mid-term class project. Fabian, with the assistance of stuntman and martial artist Paul Hayes, set up an impromptu scenario using martial arts stunts for the class to see at two different angles, one from how the camera films the scene and one from how the movie goers would see it in the theaters. At the conclusion of the lecture and demonstrations, there was a question and answer session for the students.

Betty Disney, Dean of the Costa Mesa Campus of Coastline College, was also in attendance during Fabian’s lecture and demonstration.

Course instructor David Dye has over 47 years of martial arts training experience and served 34 years as a law enforcement officer for the City of Costa Mesa. “It is a Physical Education course designed to introduce students to the martial arts of Aikido, Judo, Jujutsu, Karate Jutsu and the ancient Hawaiian martial art of Kaihewalu Lua,” he stated.

Fabian Carrillo has been training with his instructor, Sensei David Dye of the Shuyokan Dojo (located in City of Costa Mesa) since 1991 and holds a black belt ranking in Shuyokan Ryu Aikijutsu.

For information on next semester’s course offerings in Self-Defense Arts, contact Coastline’s Costa Mesa Center at (714) 241-6213.